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To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Guides and Directories
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Guides and Directories
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Guides and Directories I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Guides and Directories
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Guides and Directories Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Guides and Directories
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Guides and Directories
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Guides and Directories God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Guides and Directories
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Guides and Directories If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Guides and Directories
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guides and Directories
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Guides and Directories
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Guides and Directories The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Guides and Directories
